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Friday, November 18, 2016

How to Install Sweet Home 3D 5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D. The latest Sweet Home 3D 5.3 was released on November 16, 2016 with various improvements and corrections.

Sweet Home 3D 5.3 Changelog:

Ensured that the selected items are visible in the plan after using Zoom in or Zoom out tools.

Changed how textures on borders of room floors are displayed so they never look distorted.

Displayed walls with half transparent pattern while drawing them or while placing doors and windows, when a background image is used.

Initialized the scale and origin of background images imported at new levels with the values of the background image available at the closest level.

Improved the mouse management of the virtual visitor in plan at small scales.

Added a Home.xml entry validated by the DTD SweetHome3D.dtd to SH3D files, and added file association for future SH3X files.

Added HomeObject super class to let developers manage their own properties on home objects.

If everything goes OK. Let’s create a launcher for it so that you can start it from Unity Dash or Launcher.

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sweethome3d-5.3.desktop

Paste below content into the file and save it.

[Desktop Entry]Version=1.0Name=Sweet Home 3D 5.3GenericName=Interior 2D design application with 3D previewGenericName[de]=InnenraumplanerComment=Interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user with a 3D previewExec=/opt/SweetHome3D-5.3/SweetHome3DIcon=sweethome3dStartupNotify=trueStartupWMClass=com-eteks-sweethome3d-SweetHome3DTerminal=falseType=ApplicationCategories=Graphics;2DGraphics;3DGraphics;Keywords=interior;design;2D;3D;home;house;furniture;java;

You may grab a logo icon from web. Name it sweethome3d.png and put it under /usr/share/icons/. or copy sweethome3d.png in folder SweetHome3D-5.3 put it under /usr/share/icons/.

the real name is SweetHome3DIcon.pngif you copy it on usr/share/icons/ you have to renamed it or used SweetHome3DIcon.png on sweethome3d-5.n.desktop entry ...or just use this entry : Icon=/opt/SweetHome3D-5.4/SweetHome3DIcon.png without copying ;-)